Virginia Adult Educator Certification Program
Extension Projects and Afterwork
For each session of the Virginia Adult Educator Certification Program, program managers and instructors are asked to perform some afterwork: building on, thinking about, and applying some aspect of the session just completed. The afterwork is designed to allow participants to expand their knowledge and instructional skill as a result of reflection and follow-up action targeting an area for their own growth or improvement.
In some cases, participants will be assigned a specific task as afterwork. (For example, program managers are asked to evaluate their program after Session 1 of the Program Manager strand. Scroll to the bottom of this page to find links to specific assignments and forms for ABE/GED instructors, ESOL instructors and program managers.) At other times, participants will be asked to create their own afterwork.
In general, afterwork will be accomplished in two steps:
- First, participants will be asked to develop an Action Plan that describes what they plan to do and how they will go about doing it.
- Then, participants will send in a completed Certification Action Plan Results (CAPR) form. This is a record of what was accomplished.
Both the Action Plan and the CAPR will be reviewed and either approved or returned for more information or further clarification. While an action plan may not be requested for each session of all certification strands, completing a CAPR is a required component of each of the core sessions of the certification program.
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Effective professional development for adult educators …
- Is not a “one-shot” activity, but occurs over time.
- Fosters the connection of content and materials to real-world situations.
- Reflects adult learning theory research as well as national or state standards.
- Accommodates different learner backgrounds.
- Appraises change in instructor knowledge and practice.
Adapted from: Framework for Quality Professional Development for Practitioners Working with Adult English Language Learners, CAELA Network, Center for Applied Linguistics, http://www.cal.org/caelanetwork/profdev/framework/index.html
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